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I had a marathon tweet debate over the weekend with Lakshmipathy Bhat and Karthik Sridhar, with occasional pokes by Nikhil Pahwa and Sudarshan Banerjee. Before getting into what it was about, here are two exhibits and a minor point I should add…
The question of blogger vs. journalist has been the stuff of legends now. It has been discussed from as early as 2005, as far as I remember, and many blog posts have been written on it already. The most commonly cited reasons…
First, how does Google +1 work? Simple. You search, on Google. if you like a search result, you get an option to demonstrate that liking; click it and it’ll add the +1 next to that result. It also seems that this sharing…
I thought I was the only one, but when I started seeing tweets from many others too, I felt better – I’m not alone. I’m referring to Idea Cellular’s ‘Keep Cricket Clean’ campaign. The first TVC was all show with no meaning…
If you notice the history of how we’ve used internet (as a connectivity platform), we started with primarily one-to-one communications – email, starting in the 80s. Email communication was the predominant form of online content, back then. We then moved on to…
We were in the last leg of our two-day whirlwind trip to the innards of Tamil Nadu, yesterday evening. As we reached Madurai Railway Station, we were dead tired – the heat is a big reason and so was my 6 month…
Mahindra’s follow-up to the earlier 2-page spread announcing ‘Rise’ is today’s 10 full page print advertisements in The Times of India. Perhaps nothing explains the extent of Mahindra’s take-over of today’s Times of India like the view on the ePaper, where the…